Manifesta 5. artists. Cathy Wilkes

artists
Wilkes, Cathy
1966 Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK), lives in Glasgow (Scotland, UK).

Cathy Wilkes makes installations with sculptures, found objects and materials that are scattered and dispersed in rarefied environments. Although appearing to belong to the tradition of modernist sculpture, the artist often describes her works as corpses or representations of fractured, bent bodies. Wilkes installations are informed by personal memories and recollections that are dehumanised and then transformed into mechanical representations. As a system of symbols comprising a language made up of precise elements and permutations, Wilkes’ vocabulary grows according to a peculiar punctuation that evokes atmospheres of suspension and loss.

curriculum:

Selected individual exhibitions

Raucci/ Santamaria Gallery, Naples (Italy), 2004.
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2004.
Gallerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin, 2004.
The Modern Institute, Glasgow (Scotland, UK), 2004.

She Good. Kabinet für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven (Germany), 2003.

Inverleith House, Edinburgh, 2002.
Migros Museum, Zurich (Switzerland), 2002.

Cubitt Gallery, London, 2001.

Our Misfortune. Transmission, Glasgow (Scotland, UK), 2001.

Mr So and So. Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin, 2001.

Selected group exhibitions

SMAK, Ghent (Belgium), 2004.

Independence. South London Gallery, London, 2003.

Plunder: Culture as Material. DCA, Dundee (Scotland, UK), 2003.

Happy Outsiders. Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw; City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Katowice (Poland), 2002.

Kwangju Biennial. Kwangju (South Korea), 2002.

Circles °4 One for One. ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany), 2001.